ISBN:
9789400715608
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (206 pages)
Series Statement:
Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy Ser. v.26
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DDC:
177.5
Keywords:
Ethics
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book explores the theoretical basis of an individual's ethical obligations to others as self-knowing beings. It identifies a class of interpretive moral wrongs and shows how an individual's obligations in respect of these wrongs can be understood.
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Puzzle of Objectification -- 1.2 The Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I Respect for Persons and Interpretive Moral Wrongs -- 2 Fragmentation -- 2.1 Respect for Persons, and Persons as Ends -- 2.2 The Essence of 'Respect for Persons' -- 2.3 Contemporary Challenges -- 2.3.1 The Problem of Integration -- 2.3.2 The Problem of Personhood -- 2.3.3 The Problem of Objectification -- 2.4 The Aftermath -- References -- 3 Discrimination -- 3.1 Discrimination and Procedural Unfairness -- 3.2 Discrimination and Intentionality -- 3.3 Discrimination as an Interpretive MoralWrong -- References -- 4 Stereotyping -- 4.1 A Potential Counterexample -- 4.2 Injustice and Stereotyping -- 4.3 Ideological Stereotyping -- 5 Objectification -- 5.1 First-Stage Objectification: Instrumentalisation -- 5.2 Second-Stage Objectification: Adoption of Alien Goals -- 5.3 Third-Stage Objectification: 'Reduction' and Reflection -- 5.4 Andrea Dworkin on Sexual Objectification -- 5.5 Third-Stage Objectification as an Interpretive Moral Wrong -- References -- 6 Interpretive Moral Wrongs and Radical Theorising -- 6.1 Dworkin's Radicalism -- 6.1.1 Martha Nussbaum on Sexual Objectification -- 6.2 Marx on Commodification -- 6.3 Objectification, Stereotyping and Scientific Self-Knowledge -- 6.3.1 Objectification in Genetic Research -- 6.4 Interpretive Moral Wrongs and Human Dignity -- References -- Part II Sources and Foundations -- 7 Hegel and Recognition -- 7.1 Recognition -- 7.1.1 Hegel on Master and Slave -- 7.2 Dignity and Universal Self-Consciousness -- 7.3 Essentialism and Political Liberalism -- References -- 8 Heidegger and Authenticity -- 8.1 Liberalism, Essentialism and Positivism -- 8.2 Phenomenological Essentialism -- 8.3 Dasein, Intelligibility and Alienation -- 8.4 Inauthenticity and Objectification.
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